FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

he May 31, 1984, INDIA TODAY issue, ‘Big Budget Survivors’, featured three of Bollywood’s most successful personalities on the cover—producer-directors Manmohan Desai and Prakash Mehra and superstar Amitabh Bachchan. The trio epitomised the unchallenged dominance of the world’s largest film industry with big-budget movies and glitzy sets. Television was still finding its feet, and mobile phones and the internet were in their infancy. Nearly four decades later, a convergence of 4G